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Guatemala expels head of U.N. anti-graft unit probing president
Source: Reuters
#WORLD NEWS AUGUST 27, 2017 / 12:50 PM / 18 MINUTES AGO
Guatemala expels head of U.N. anti-graft unit probing president
Sofia Menchu
2 MIN READ
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales has declared as “persona non grata” the head of an influential U.N. anti-graft unit seeking to investigate his campaign financing and ordered the official to leave the Central American country immediately.
Speaking in a video published on his Facebook account on Sunday, the president said Ivan Velasquez, head of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), must leave national territory with immediate effect.
The move came after the CICIG in 2015 was instrumental in removing Guatemala’s former president from office after identifying him as a key player in an alleged multi-million-dollar corruption racket.
Guatemala’s foreign minister Carlos Raul Morales left the government on Sunday, according to the ministry’s Twitter account. The circumstances of his departure were not immediately clear, but the former minister, who is not related to the president, said on Friday he would resign if Velasquez was forced out.
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Guatemala expels head of U.N. anti-graft unit probing president
Sofia Menchu
2 MIN READ
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales has declared as “persona non grata” the head of an influential U.N. anti-graft unit seeking to investigate his campaign financing and ordered the official to leave the Central American country immediately.
Speaking in a video published on his Facebook account on Sunday, the president said Ivan Velasquez, head of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), must leave national territory with immediate effect.
The move came after the CICIG in 2015 was instrumental in removing Guatemala’s former president from office after identifying him as a key player in an alleged multi-million-dollar corruption racket.
Guatemala’s foreign minister Carlos Raul Morales left the government on Sunday, according to the ministry’s Twitter account. The circumstances of his departure were not immediately clear, but the former minister, who is not related to the president, said on Friday he would resign if Velasquez was forced out.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-guatemala-corruption-idUSKCN1B70PT?il=0
